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So, looking at the video, I am curious: is there a video where they fire a light impulse against a double-slit experiment setup? Would it be possible to see the
by lqet 7y ago
So, looking at the video, I am curious: is there a video where they fire a light impulse against a double-slit experiment setup? Would it be possible to see the light being "split up" and interfering with itself?
- simias 7y agoYou can't see the light not going into the camera (obviously) so what you see is some light from the beam being reflected into the sensor. You can't take a picture of a photon, if that makes sense. So in the double slit experiment you could see the path the light took only if you allowed for a portion of that light to be reflected towards the camera. But then if you did that you wouldn't end up with anything particularly new or interesting as far as I can imagine.
- lqet 7y agoOf course, you are right! I intuitively thought of the light impulse emitting further photons in the direction of the camera, which makes no sense.
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